Organization: American Red Cross
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 14 Sep 2015
The American Red Cross (ARC) International Services Department (ISD) seeks to prevent and alleviate human suffering around the world by responding to disasters, building safer, more resilient communities, and educating future humanitarians. With programs and partners in 70 countries, the American Red Cross working to strengthen the global Red Cross Red Crescent Network in order to deliver critical assistance to some of the most vulnerable communities in the world, reaching 100 million people annually.
SUMMARY:
The Technical Lead position plays a fundamental role in the Quality and Learning unit, in coordinating and providing technical support to program staff that ensures programmatic frameworks, conceptual models, and global tools are applied consistently across the department’s programs. The Technical Lead is the primary point of engagement for project design and technical proposal development, promoting program rigor, quality and competitiveness. In this role, a primary function of this position is to assist and build the capacity of program personnel to theoretically understand, design and implement resilience programming.
As part of a wider ISD team of other technical and multidisciplinary advisors, the Technical Lead will contribute to the development of global methodologies, approaches and tools. In this role, the Technical Lead will provide leadership, guidance, and training in their designated thematic area of expertise, WATSAN. They will be expected to translate the global tools into field specific contexts for practical application. The Technical Lead will also be responsible for building on an existing network of industry experts to share and learn from globally accepted best and promising practice taking the lead to coordinate and connect learning opportunities across regions, departments and the wider Red Cross network.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Global Tools:
- Develop or contribute to the revision of tools, guidelines and associated methodologies for designing and implementing integrated resilience programs.
- Design and facilitate relevant capacity building measures (e.g., training, mentoring, etc.) for key partners, particularly support build the capacity of partner national societies in resilience, contributing to their organizational development as leading national humanitarian organizations.
- Identify opportunities to introduce innovative and appropriate approaches and/or technologies to support resilience in Red Cross programming focused on reaching scale and sustaining local interventions.
Project & Proposal Design:
- Lead, coordinate and provide technical support on resilience to American Red Cross programs throughout the project cycle stages (identification, assessment, analysis, design, planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation) to ensure program quality, effectiveness and sustainability.
- Lead on project design and technical proposal development, particularly to support field operations to ensure program rigor, quality and competitiveness.
- Lead on subject matter expertise in a key humanitarian/resilience sector (i.e. WASH, Livelihoods, Health, Shelter/Settlements).
- Lead, coordinate and provide high quality technical and advisory support to field operations throughout the project management cycle (design, start-up, implementation and close-out); Support monitoring and evaluation, particularly assisting in building an evidence base and measuring the effectiveness and impact of resilience programming.
Shared Learning & Best Practices:
- Work with key stakeholders to support ARC activities in developing partnerships to improve the effectiveness of resilience programming.
- Proactively network and represent ARC in appropriate resilience global/resilience forums and networks.
- Monitoring, documenting, and disseminating current promising and best practices in resilience and multi-sector integration programming.
- Share tools and materials from other similar projects within and outside of Red Cross.
- Complete assigned tasks as requested.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of staff so classified.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) in relevant field such as international development, humanitarian/resilience, or disaster management with subject matter expertise particularly urban program experience in either water/sanitation, livelihoods or shelter/settlements.
- Minimum of 7 to 10 years relevant experience in international humanitarian/disaster management and/or resilience programming in developing countries including direct project implementation, with at least five years living and working in crisis-affected countries.
- Experience in project cycle management particularly designing, implementing and managing multi-sector complex, country level initiatives with multiple objectives preferably for both international relief and development programs.
- Deep experience in project design and proposal writing.
- Experience conducting and/or supervising needs assessments, data analysis, and program reviews required.
- Experience providing technical support with capacity building, mentoring, and cross-unit collaboration.
- Excellent writing skills and experience designing and developing programmatic strategies, guidance and approaches/tools.
- Experience developing public funding proposals, particularly designing and implementing USAID and USAID/OFDA projects.
- Experience building organizational partnerships and organizational capacity and supporting community coalitions, particularly with local government, NGOs/CBOs, as well as the ability to influence decision makers.
- Ability to travel frequently, sometimes at short notice (25-45% travel)
- Selected candidate must already be legally allowed to work in the US without any need for Visa Sponsorship now or in the future.
The American Red Cross is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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